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Author
Language
English
Description
Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full/Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After their mother dies, two boys travel for Venice, where they meet Scipio, the Thief Lord. Along with a small band of abandoned kids, the boys join Scipio's world of robbing the rich. Soon, they win the heart of the detective hired to track them.
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Simone Ford and filmmaker Thomas Lang lose themselves in a notorious murder case they are covering. Caught up in the city's seedy underbelly and the media frenzy surrounding the horrific murder, Thomas begins to question the motives of the people around him as the mystery proves greater than he imagined.
6) Othello
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Othello" by William Shakespeare is a captivating tale of love, jealousy, and the destructive power of deceit. Set against the backdrop of Venice, this timeless tragedy follows the noble Moorish general Othello as he falls deeply in love with the beautiful Desdemona. However, their happiness is short-lived as the ensign Iago, consumed by jealousy and ambition, begins to manipulate Othello into believing that Desdemona has been unfaithful.
What unfolds...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainemnt
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen or standard version.
Language
English
Description
A story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, and their initial response to the rise of fascism is to arrange a polite meeting with Mussolini to make sure he and his soldiers mean well.
9) Two women
Publisher
Miracle Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Realistic drama of an Italian widow who, along with her young daughter, are brutally raped by Allied soldiers in World War II.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape.
11) Mafia mamma
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A suburban mom unexpectedly inherits her long-lost grandfather's mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm's trusted consigliere, she hilariously defies everyone's expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business." --container.
12) Roman holiday
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love.
13) Casanova
Publisher
WGBH Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The original unedited British version, this mini series alternates between the gripping love triangle involving the young Casanova and the swan song of the world's most notorious lothario.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
[Full screen ed.].
Language
English
Description
While on vacation, a just-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life. Along the way she finds that sometimes what seems like a mistake is really a blessing.
15) Silent mountain
Publisher
Entertainment One Film
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
May 1915. At his sister's wedding, Andreas meets Francesca, a stunning seventeen-year-old Italian girl, but their blossoming love is interrupted when Italy declares war against Austria, and his is sent off to front lines. As the conflicts tears families apart and turns neighbors into enemies, Andreas fight his way through the mountainous battleground of the Alps, determined to return to Francesca and recuse her from impending danger.
16) When in Rome
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter, and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?
18) Bread & tulips
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:1).
Language
Italiano
Description
When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordian. But her solo journey does not sit well with her tyrannical husband, who hires an amateur detective...
19) The American
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a job ends more violently than expected, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside and accepts one last assignment to construct a deadly weapon for a mysterious contact. But when he pursues a relationship with a beautiful local woman, he may be tempting fate by stepping out of the shadows. Jack soon finds himself in an escalating battle to escape from his secretive past.
20) Enchanted April
Publisher
Miramax Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
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